Our Valentine's Day

Last weekend was pretty good!  On Saturday morning Kevin drove me to the Red Cross because I had an appointment to donate platelets. It was my first time donating platelets, and I was pretty nervous and I wasn't sure how I'd be feeling after (if I'd be ok to drive or not), so Kevin very graciously offered to drop me off and pick me up even though my appointment was early in the morning! The experience itself wasn't too bad... It was definitely uncomfortable, but the worst part of it is just that you can't use your arms for like 3 hours (because they have blood coming out of one arm and going back in the other one after they remove the platelets).  But, they do let you pick a movie to watch, so I picked The Lord of The Rings: Return of the King, because I knew it was SUPER long so it'd last the whole time I was there! I was very grateful for that movie. I think I'll donate again sometime next month, but for now my arms are healing up because they bruised the crap out of me. After Kevin picked me up, I definitely napped for a bit on the couch with Guinness. And then during the evening we went to McGee's family's house for dinner!  It was so nice to see all of them, and we had a great evening hanging out.

Guinness loooooved our nap time. We were snuggled on the couch. 

 We started celebrating Valentine's Day last Sunday by going bowling (it's been our tradition the last few years). We wanted to go to a cool bowling alley in the city that has a super retro vibe and also serves AMAZING tater tots, but unfortunately that place was booked for a private event.  But, we discovered that the little bowling alley near us (that'd we'd never been to!) had SUPER cheap prices, and they're also BYOB!  We went there and bowled 3 games, and drank a few beers that we'd brought with us, and had a really fun time (and the whole thing cost us $10 total)! By the 3rd game my arm was super dead, and Kevin SLAUGHTERED me!  The first two games were pretty close, but the 3rd game was a blowout...

After bowling, we went home for a bit, and then we went to see Lego Batman!  It was HILARIOUS. Seriously hilarious movie.  After the movie was over, we wandered across the street to the mall and walked around for a few minutes (I'd never been to that mall!). 

It's the Joker from Lego Batman! 

I'm poking Lego Batman in his 9-pack abs!  (It's a joke in the movie)

And our Valentine's Day was AWESOME, except for having to work (I prefer a weekend Valentine's Day!). We made some homemade pasta and homemade alfredo for dinner (AMAZING), and then we watched a horror movie!  That has been a Valentine's Day tradition for me since my days of being single, and Kevin and I have shared that tradition the whole time we've been together too. Our movie this year was The Visit (by M. Night Shyamalan), because we'd both heard it was good and we saw it was on HBO On Demand.  It was definitely a creepy movie!  The twist was pretty good... I don't think I'd call it a "good" movie, but the twist was good.  And it creeped us out, so that's what we were looking for really :)  Oh, and we ended the evening by watching Michael Bolton's Valentine's Day Special on Netflix!  It was SOOOO hilarious!!  We were cracking up.

We have made a bit of progress on our Oscar Best Picture nominees list!  This week we saw Hidden Figures (SOOOOO good!!!), and we saw Arrival (pretty good). So, we've now seen 5 of the 9 nominees!  Not too shabby.

Happy Friday everybody!!  I hope everyone has a great weekend! Kevin should be home any minute, and then we're going to make some enchiladas, and have a nice relaxing evening!